Word: upset
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...just upset because I feel like this event was used as a pulpit to speak to the masses, rather than to my class,” he said...
...400th career victory and move one step closer to the outright title. But the next night at Yale, everything came crashing down. Harvard held a one-point halftime lead, but the Bulldogs stayed in it, using a 6-0 run in the final five minutes to seal the upset. “Nothing compares to that,” Delaney-Smith said. The euphoria of the Cornell victory had long lost its luster. The three-way tie atop the league standings meant that Harvard had to take on the other two teams in a playoff to determine the league?...
...played the Blue Jays twice before and falling short each time, Harvard’s chances looked bleak. Both teams traded scores throughout the game, and Voith rose to the occasion, leading all scorers with four goals, including two decisive scores in the fourth quarter to clinch the stunning upset. For his efforts, Voith was voted the Rookie of the Tournament and served as the Crimson’s lone representative on the All-Tournament team.While Voith and other goalscorers like Livingston and Ludwick greased the wheels to keep the Harvard machine rolling, it was the inspired play of junior...
...young team as it prepared for Ancient Eight play. In the space of a week, the Crimson fought to wins at Northeastern and home against Boston University—the second of which ended in dramatic fashion with a Wideroff game-winner in double overtime—and nearly upset No. 10 Boston College in Chestnut Hill. “Those three games really stick out to me,” Leone said. “They were all very exciting, and helped us gain confidence as we moved through the rest of the year.”As Harvard?...
...daughter, who had filled out March Madness brackets long before she knew how to spell “Mississippi” or “Valparaiso” (but who picked Valpo over Ole Miss in a 13-over-4 stunner in 1998) was prepared to call another upset: Oklahoma or Duke over Harvard, all in the name of mayhem at Memorial Stadium and Cameron Indoor.I thought longingly of packed crowds at the Big House and the Tobacco Road rivalry, Stanford’s all-around athletic dominance, and the “Boomer Sooner” cheer...